You won't see Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon brunching at the Hotel del Coronado, but you should Sunday Brunch at the hotel's Crown Room has been voted best brunch by San Diego residents multiple times.

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Los Angeles' Angels Flight funicular reopened in August, delighting fans of "La La Land" as well as denizens of LA's steep Bunker Hill. Repairs to the funicular are ongoing.

The Potter School in Bodega was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's famous thriller, "The Birds." (Jackie Burrell/Staff)

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San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge has been featured in scores of movies, most disastrously in "San Andreas," when it was wiped out by a tsunami. CGI was used, thank goodness.

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San Francisco's Fort Point was the setting for an iconic scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo."

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You don't have to be a Hitchockian blonde or vertigo-plagued hero to visit Fort Point. The National Historic Landmark is open to the public.

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Visitors take in the views at the Presidio's Fort Point.

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This Steiner Street house in San Francisco was the setting for the movie "Mrs. Doubtfire."

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When actor Robin Williams died in 2014, a makeshift memorial sprang up outside this Steiner Street house, which was the setting for one of his most beloved movies, "Mrs. Doubtfire."

Robin Williams in "Mrs. Doubtfire."

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Los Angeles' Bradbury Building has been the setting for several movies, including "The Artist" and "Blade Runner."

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Jamestown's Railtown 1897 Historic State Park has been the setting for hundreds of films and TV episodes, including entire seasons of "Bonanza" and "Gunsmoke."

Wooden signs of fictional railroads and rail stops, used in various movies and TV shows, are on display outside a shed at the Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown. (Sacramento Bee file photo)

Railtown Historic State Park in Jamestown

The old train cars at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown help cinematographers and directors, such as Clint Eastwood, evoke the past. Eastwood starred in and directed "Unforgiven," which used this site as a filming location.

Actors, screenwriters, directors — it takes a Hollywood village to raise a movie to cinematic heights. And as any filming location scout can tell you, sometimes the village itself needs to be somewhere else. After all, you can hardly evoke Southern landscapes, alien terrain and the Roman Empire all in the same spot.

While some California locations have made only a solo appearance on the silver screen, others have provided the backdrops to countless films. The Alabama Hills of Lone Pine, for example, which is east of Sequoia National Park, has been the setting for projects as dramatically different as “Django Unchained” (2012), “Man of Steel” (2013), “Gladiator” (2000) and the TV sci-fi series “Firefly” (2002-2003). Jamestown — and especially its Railtown 1897 State Historic Park — specializes in Wild West scenery. Among its screen credits: “Unforgiven” (1992), “Back to the Future III” (1990) and entire seasons of “The Lone Ranger,” “Bonanza” and “Petticoat Junction.”

Here are 10 of California’s most famous filming locations:

1 “Some Like It Hot,” Hotel del Coronado, Coronado

This historic hotel sits on the sandy shores of Coronado, near San Diego, and looks much as it did back when Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis arrived with their all-girl band in 1959.

2 “La La Land,” Angels Flight, Los Angeles

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The narrow-gauge funicular that runs up Los Angeles’ Bunker Hill had a cameo role in the Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling 2016 film, “La La Land.” Shuttered since a 2013 derailment, Angels Flight reopened in August, but repairs are ongoing.

3 “Mrs. Doubtfire,” 2640 Steiner St., San Francisco

This picturesque Victorian was the Doubtfire family home in this 1993 film starring Robin Williams and Sally Field. When Williams died in 2014, many fans left bouquets and notes here at the site of one of his most beloved films.

San Francisco took a battering in this 2015 blockbuster starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario. But it was the giant tsunami that took out the Golden Gate Bridge.

5 “The Birds,” Potter Schoolhouse, Bodega

Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic 1963 movie, which starred Tippi Hedrin, Rod Taylor and thousands of murderous birds, was filmed in Bodega and Bodega Bay, two coastal towns stitched together to form one. The famous Potter School is in Bodega — and the school was actually saved by the movie. (Read more about that and other “Birds” locations here.)

6 “Vertigo,” Fort Point, San Francisco

Hitchcock had a soft spot for Bay Area filming locations — and there was a reason for that. The 1958 Jimmy Stewart-Kim Novak thriller, “Vertigo,” used Fort Point for one of its most famous (and wettest) scenes.

7 “Unforgiven,” Railtown 1897, Jamestown

Jamestown’s 19th century railway was used as a filming location for the 1992 gunslinger flick starring Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman. The movie won four Oscars, including best picture and best director for Eastwood.

8 “Blade Runner,” Bradbury Building, Los Angeles

The original 1982 “Blade Runner,” with Harrison Ford and Sean Young, included scenes shot in this architectural landmark noted for its immense atrium and ornate ironwork.

9 “Die Hard,” Fox Plaza, Los Angeles

The stand in for Nakatomi Plaza in this 1988 thriller, starring Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia and a pre-Snape Alan Rickman, is actually Twentieth Century Fox’s headquarters.

This Sierra destination is a favorite with Hollywood directors, who have shot everything from “Hopalong Cassidy” to portions of “Iron Man” here. When Russell Crowe’s character returns to Spain, the distinctive backdrop to his horseback ride is the Alabama Hills.

Jackie Burrell is the editor and senior writer for the Mercury News and East Bay Times' Eat Drink Play section, which explores the West Coast's food, wine, cocktail and travel scene each week. An award-winning writer, Burrell joined the Bay Area News Group staff in 2000.